Interesting OOF messages
It’s that time of the year when everyone is taking time off and some of us will leave out-of-office messages. The typical boring OOF (shouldn’t they be called OOO or OoOf?) should tell when you’re...
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My top tweets from 2016
These are my top tweets from each month in 2016, according to https://analytics.twitter.com. January 2016 New blog post: My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive...
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Loading CSV/text files with more than a million rows into Excel
1. The Problem If you usually load a very large CSV (comma-separated values) file or text file into Excel, you might run into the dreaded “File not loaded completely” message: As the message explains,...
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Using PowerShell to generate a large test CSV file with random data
I recently posted a new blog that shows how to load a very large CSV file into Excel, breaking the limit of 1 million rows in a single Excel sheet. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out:...
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My top tweets from 2017
These are my top tweets from each month in 2017, according to https://analytics.twitter.com. January 2017 Top Tweet (earned 4,849 impressions) Free Azure training via Microsoft on Open edX. These are...
View ArticlePath to the Server (An Ode to SMB Multichannel)
Read while listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQUu5Dti4g Path to the Server On Ode to SMB Multichannel by Jose Barreto There’s a client somewhere looking for file shares And it’s...
View ArticleLinks about OneDrive Ransomware Detection and OneDrive Files Restore
Announcements Office Blogs: Defend yourself from cybercrime with new Office 365 capabilities By Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President for Office, Microsoft...
View ArticleOpen sourcing SuperDir, a file manager for CP/M written in the 1980s
Microsoft has open sourced the 1990s File Manager for Windows 3.0 this week. You can check it out at https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/ So I went even further and open sourced my 1980s File Manager...
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OneDrive Files Restore – User Guide
This guide is intended to help you use the new OneDrive Files Restore feature. 1. What is Files Restore? Files Restore allows OneDrive users to restore their files and folders to a previous point in...
View ArticlePowerShell script to check my backup by comparing file hashes
This sample PowerShell script compares the files in two different paths by calculating and comparing hashes for each file. I use it to compare my backup to the source data, after the backup is...
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